Preface To Short Story Selection - The Matisse Stories
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The book that I read by A S Byatt called the Matisse Stories was a trilogy of stories about Matisse’s paintings.
The first story took place in a beauty salon where the protagonist, Susannah usually had her hair done. The salon was painted in soft pink colours and Matisse’s Le Nu rose hung in ....
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.... and this cheered Susannah up and restored her mood to a good one.
The second story was about an artistic family and their housekeeper. The mother, Debbie, works for and art magazine and the father, Robin is an artist with his studio upstairs in the house. There was a lot of tension between Robin and Mrs Brown, the housekeeper because Robin was often impatient. He hated the way that Mrs Brown dressed because her colours often clashed and she wore wild homemade outfits. Robin lectured ....
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Word count: 1046
Page count: 4 (approximately 250 words per page)
